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Any fan of “Whose Line Is It Anyway” is well aware of Wayne Brady’s next level musical improv skills. He’s done it a million times, and yet each new on-the-spot performance seems as magical as the last.

In fact, it was this particular set of skills that landed Brady his breakout gig in the first place, which he recently explained on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon”…just before going into a completely freestyle rap routine using random objects.

And since it’s Wayne Brady, he of course did not miss a beat.

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While appearing on the late night show to talk about his new role as The Wizard of Oz in a revival of “The Wiz” on Broadway, Brady told Fallon that he had no expectations of making it past the first round of “Whose Line” auditions. But then everything “flipped” when he was asked to improvise a song.

Committing to the age-old improv philosophy of “yes, and,” Brady agreed to give it a go. “At the end of the day I had a job. It was ridiculous.”

At the time, Brady was working two jobs. One as a Power Rangers performer for kid’s parties, and the other as a singing Beetlejuice for Universal Studios. Even after getting hired by “Whose Line,” Birthday kept the job at Universal. That is, until he was recognized by some front row audience members, and the rest is history.

Brady’s story then prompted Fallon to say, “You are so good at improv and freestyling…It’s unbelievable what you do. You’re so talented. I thought it would be fun for the audience if you did a little freestyling maybe about ‘The Wiz’ tonight.”

He then added, “but I know you like a little pressure. So what I have here is random things, and if I show the object can you add them into your freestyle?”

Wayne accepted the challenge, calling it “easy money.”

With The Roots backing him with a beat, Brady seamlessly incorporated a slice of pizza, Beyoncé’s “Cowboy Carter” album, a Polaroid camera and a guitar into his rap…all before ending it with a Playbill for The Wiz.

Watch below. Brady truly is the musical improv master.

If there’s any dog breed that encapsulates “good doggo” energy, it’s the Golden Retriever. Friendly, gentle, good-natured and oh-so-affectionate, Goldens have come by their reputation honestly. Even “I’m not a dog person” people tend to find themselves taken by Golden Retrievers, and a post on TikTok demonstrates why.

The video shared by @hugoandursula is captioned “my dog getting cuddles from strangers on the train,” and that’s exactly what it shows in the most adorable montage ever.

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In clip after clip, the sweet pup snuggles into unsuspecting train passengers, winning hearts and evoking “awwwws” left and right. (If you’re on the fence about getting a dog, be careful watching this video because it will catapult you right over the edge.)

@hugoandursula

Melts my heart 🥰🥰🥰🥰 #goldenretriever

The video has been shared multiple times since it was first posted in January of 2023, and every time, people can’t get enough of it. In March of 2024, it was posted in the r/mademesmile subreddit, and people poured all the Golden Retriever love into the comments.

“Golden’s love attention.. our Daisy would politely walk around the benches at softball and stop for anyone who expressed an interest in petting her. She was never rude, just wanted to meet new people and show some love while getting some.” – michaeldpj

“They are the most ‘hi i’m in the room look at me i’m here’ dogs i’ve ever met.” – botjstn

“I would ride in trains much more often if I was guaranteed to see an adorably squashed doggy nose in front of me. It’s delightful.” – Designer-Command1417

“The look on the woman’s face when the dog snuggles up her is worth a billion dollars!” – Ok-Sale-8105

Reddit users were also thrilled when a “Schnoodle” appeared in the comments. A Schnoodle on social media is a cheesily heartwarming poem from u/schnoodledoodledo, written from the point-of-view of an animal, and the Schnoodle for our Golden train-riding friend here is perfectly fitting.

Look at me – the Traveler! i get to come along

being with my human is the place that i belong ;@)

am friendly with the passengers, n try n spread the JoY!

(they’re frens i haven’t met yet,

n they tell me i’m Good Boy)

so i will find an empty seat, n sit with them awhile

i get aLot of scritches, n i leave them with a smile

am tired from the journey, but i know i did my part

to leave a golden memory

inside their human heart

“FRESHEST SCHNOODLE!!” wrote one commenter, followed by “OMG a schnoodle!! I haven’t seen one in over a year. I thought they had disappeared! This has made my day!” and “Starting the day with a fresh schnoodle for brunch is highly recommended!!!”

For an extended version of one of these good doggo love fests, check out another video from @hugoandursula:

@hugoandursula

Hux making more friends..🥺💕

Again, so much love in the comments.

“Are you telling me a stranger got on the train and received all this love for free?!?!” – kirstygu

“I don’t care where that train is going I’m buying a ticket 🥺” – Angharad

“Did he cry before parting ways? I would be bawling” – Melanin. Queen

“I’ve never been more jealous of a person before in my life.” – Carrie Thompson

One thing’s for certain—if the train system wants to encourage more riders, all they need to do is get a Golden Retriever to welcome their passengers. They’d fill up those seats in no time.

The debate as to whether or not parents should supply classroom supplies is not new. But as prices continue to rise, parents are growing more baffled as to how they can be expected by teachers to provide all the various glue sticks, colored pencils, rulers and other various items the incoming students might need.

What’s even more perplexing, however, is penalizing the children of parents who won’t (or can’t) provide them.

This was the case for Shanitta Nicole, who discovered her son received a zero grade in his new school for not bringing school supplies for the entire classroom.

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Nicole was especially surprised by this reaction since she had already gone through the effort of making sure her son had every supply he needed from the school’s list, which was slightly different than the one they previously had.

And yet, the 7th grade teacher informed her son that he was still expected to provide for the classroom, not just himself. And, thus, a zero grade, for failing the assignment, so to speak.

Even though Nicole thought the rule was “weird,” she went out and bought the bulk items, which included tissues, Clorox wipes, hand sanitizer, pencils, Expo markers, and red pens.

And yet, the next week—her son still has a zero. Concerned, Nicole emailed her son’s teacher.

“I’m like, ‘hey…my student has a 83 in the class and everything else in the class is 100s and 98s and he still has a zero for something called ‘classroom supplies.’” she said in a video.

“‘We bought the supplies anyways, but I don’t feel like it’s the parents’ responsibility to supply your classroom. And I definitely don’t think it’s appropriate to assign a grade to students based off of whether or not they’ve supplied your class with supplies. That doesn’t make any sense.’”

@shanittanicole Am I doing too much? #fyp #school ♬ original sound – Shanitta Nicolee 💖

And while Nicole’s email did get the teacher to reconcile the grade, there was no mention to her other concern regarding the responsibility for parents to provide the entire class with supplies.

“So, I emailed the principal because I just, I might be extra, but I just want to see what’s going on. Why do I have to buy supplies for the classroom?” the frustrated mom concluded.

Nicole’s video quickly went viral on TikTok, and several weighed in to agree that the teacher’s actions were misguided.

“That is so unfair!! Especially for the kids whose parents CANT afford groceries let alone classroom supplies,” one user wrote.

Another added, “You are not wrong. It is 100% ok for [the teacher] to ask for supplies, but mandate it for a grade? Absolutely not.”

And this point is truly what Nicole took umbrage with, as she noted several times in the comments. It has less to do with being asked to help and more to do with her son’s grade depending on it.

In a follow-up video, Nicole shared that the school principal did end up reaching out, notifying her that while, yes, teachers are allowed to ask for donations, it should never be mandated.

@shanittanicole Replying to @yafavv._.dancer😍😘💞😍😍💞 Graded Supplies Update #fyp #school ♬ original sound – Shanitta Nicolee 💖

“What the teacher was trying to accomplish, but it definitely wasn’t appropriate,” the principal told Nicole.

While the teacher might have not handled this situation in the best way, it goes without saying that this is a larger systemic issue—one that isn’t exactly fair to parents, teachers and students alike.

Most public school teachers spend a significant amount of their own money on classroom supplies, to an average of $673 per year, according to a recent survey of more than 1,100 educators by the Association of American Educators (AAE). That number only goes up for teachers in high poverty schools.

At the same time, according to a 2022 survey with Savings.com, the typical parent also spends nearly $600 on school supplies. Plus things like clothes, backpacks, haircuts etc.

In the grand scheme of things, there’s no use placing full responsibility or blame onto teachers or parents. Because either way, students get caught in the crossfire. This is clearly a universal burden that needs attention.

This article originally appeared on 10.5.23

If you’re a parent you’re likely in one of two categories: parents who have never heard of pinworms or parents who shuttered at the headline. Parents are not really given any sort of warning for all of the eyebrow raising situations that occur in childhood and one dad has found out that there was a lot left out of that non-existent parenting handbook.

Justin, a dad that runs the TikTok page drumbeatlane took to social media to tell the world of the current nightmare fuel parenting situation he was experiencing. He’s also doing parents on social media a solid by giving them a heads up on the disturbing secret plaguing the parenting world–pinworms.

The viral video starts out with no trigger warning before he says though clenched teeth, “my son has worms in his anus.” Yeah, you read that right. It’s a thing. A slightly terrifying but totally normal thing.

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“No one tells you about this stuff when you’re thinking about being a parent but apparently it’s like super normal for a child to just have worms in his booty hole,” Justin says.

Dr. Cerissa Key, a pediatrician, chimed in on Justin’s disturbing revelation and assured him and every parent watching that pinworms are a common thing that happens in young children. But she also dropped some info that other’s including Justin may not have been ready to hear.

“Justin, sir. I hate to be the bearer of bad news. But if your son has worms in his booty hole, sir, politely and respectfully, you also have worms in your booty hole,” Key reveals.

Key goes on to explain that kids are “disgusting” and don’t wash their hands well so pinworms spread easily if a child at school or daycare has them. She advises that parents stock up on the chalky banana flavored medication that clears them up and to wash everything on hot while being sure to vacuum your floors well.

@drumbeatlane

Parenting truly is just one surprise after another. But the biggest surprise to me every time something crazy happens is that it is usually super common, just no one talks about it. So I’m warning you. Your child might get worms in their anus. #justinkellough #dadsoftiktok #parentsoftiktok #momsoftiktok #parentingadvice #parenting @Justin

People in the comment section of both videos were horrified that this was an actual thing while others commiserated with the stressed dad.

“I have no kids and now I’m paranoid I have pinworms with no symptoms,” one person writes.

“I’ve raised 4 kids and never had this happen. Tomorrow this will be my entry on my gratitude journal,” a mom confesses.

“Do I have kids? No…Do I even work around kids? Also no…do I still have the urge to take this medicine just in case anyways? 100000%,” someone says.

@therealdrkey

#stitch with @Justin Allllll about pinworms! It your kid has them, YOU have them. 😩 #pinworms #pinworm #pediatrician #momlife #itchybottom #itchyvulva #pinwormssuck #parenting

Not everyone was stressed, some were thankful for the information. “Thank you! We haven’t experienced pinworms yet, but super informative and helps to make parenting normalized,” another commenter writes.

Key suggests that if your child has pinworms that the entire family should take a dose of the medication two weeks apart to make sure any left over newly hatched eggs are also killed. While you may not have been warned about pinworms, no one ever said parenting would be glamorous. It just seems people weren’t prepared for how unglamorous it could get.

This article originally appeared on 12.23.23

It’s a common theme in Hollywood: women tend to be torn down by a bunch of obsessive internet users who have nothing else to do with their time. We’ve seen it with just about every famous woman out there, and even though Anne Hathaway is acting royalty, she was not immune to the scorching hate in the 2010s.

Hathaway became a common internet punchline about a decade ago right after she became a household name. Sure, she had earned herself an Oscar and pulled off an impressive heist with Rihanna, but Hathaway was subjected to what became dubbed “Hathahate.” Her role in the panned live-action Alice in Wonderland surely didn’t help either.

But the hate was all based on nothing. Hathaway recently explained how all of the backlash affected her budding career. “A lot of people wouldn’t give me roles, because they were so concerned about how toxic my identity had become online,” she told Vanity Fair.

Of course, she still acted in a number of successful films after her Oscar win, but there was one director who took a bigger chance on her. “I had an angel in Christopher Nolan, who did not care about that and gave me one of the most beautiful roles I’ve had in one of the best films that I’ve been a part of,” she said, referring to Interstellar (not her catsuit-wearing stint in The Dark Knight Rises).

She continued, “I don’t know if he knew that he was backing me at the time, but it had that effect. And my career did not lose momentum the way it could have if he hadn’t backed me,” she explained. This is not the first time someone has credited Nolan for taking a chance on them.

Hathaway reflected on how the ordeal shaped her. “Humiliation is such a rough thing to go through. The key is to not let it close you down. You have to stay bold, and it can be hard because you’re like, ‘If I stay safe, if I hug the middle, if I don’t draw too much attention to myself, it won’t hurt.’ But if you want to do that, don’t be an actor.”

Luckily, Hathaway has been picking up some solid projects over the years, including her role as Woman Tearing Up The Dance Floor and the upcoming movie inspired by One Direction Fanfic. If that doesn’t show confidence in her career, what does?

(Via EW)

With 3 Body Problem now streaming on Netflix, the streamer’s X/Twitter account started going buck wild with a certain phrase from the new series from Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss: “You are bugs.”

Based on the best-selling novel of the same name, 3 Body Problem centers on an alien invasion that’s centuries in the making. As you can tell by Netflix’s recent posts below, those aliens do not have a friendly view of humanity.

Also, whoever runs Netflix’s tweets clearly had a lot of coffee.

Why Is Netflix Tweeting ‘You Are Bugs’ About ‘3 Body Problem’?

As pointed out by Tudum, the extraterrestial civilization known as the San-Ti co-opted the phrase after witnessing Chinese demonstrators in the 1960s vow to stop infiltrators to the communist movement by chanting, “Root out the bugs!” Thanks to a lack of understanding on how metaphors work, the San-Ti take this concept literally as they prepare to crush humanity following their 400 year trek to our planet.

In short, “you are bugs” seems just as bad as it sounds for the people of Earth.

Here’s the official series synopsis:

From multiple Emmy Award-winning creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss (Game of Thrones), and Emmy-nominated Alexander Woo (The Terror: Infamy, True Blood) comes 3 Body Problem, a thrilling story that redefines sci-fi drama with its layered mysteries and genre-bending high stakes. Based on the acclaimed, international bestselling book trilogy, The Three-Body Problem.

A young woman’s fateful decision in 1960s China reverberates across space and time to a group of brilliant scientists in the present day. As the laws of nature unravel before their eyes five former colleagues reunite to confront the greatest threat in humanity’s history.

3 Body Problem Season 1 is now streaming on Netflix.

(Via Tudum)

For the past few years, the music industry as a whole has had a lot of concerns about the future of touring. Not only has going on tour been a staple of many artists’ album rollouts, but it’s also been most artists’ primary form of income. Yet, in the years since the 2020 pandemic (which is arguably still ongoing), artists have said that touring has become so expensive that they often lose money. We’ve seen tours from even major artists severely curtailed or even canceled as a result.

In response, some artists, like Charli XCX, have announced smaller mini-tours, which allow them to keep performing live, but also keep costs to a minimum, allowing them to recoup and build their budgets for more traditional tours. Charli announced her Brat Tour, which will begin on June 1 in Barcelona, on Twitter, announcing just hours later that “All tour dates sold out xx” (but you can probably get them on the secondary market if you look hard enough).

The tour is named after the pop star’s upcoming album, which she said is also coming this summer. So far, she’s released one single, “Von Dutch,” as well as a remix featuring Addison Rae and A.G. Cook.

You can find more information about Charli XCX’s Brat Tour and buy tickets here.

Brat Tour Dates

06/01 — Barcelona @
06/07 — London @ Here at Outernet
06/11 — New York @ Knockdown Center
06/12 — Chicago @ Radius
06/15 — Los Angeles @ Shrine Expo Hall
06/19 — Mexico City @ LooLoo Studio
06/22 — São Paulo @ Zig Club

Charli XCX is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Mindy Kaling and B.J. Novak have known each other for 20 years, ever since they started working on The Office together. They even dated on and off for years (not to mention the persistent rumors about the identity of her kids’ father). But has there been a falling out been the (platonic?) life partners?

Last week, celebrity gossip account DeuxMoi shared a blind item that suggested Kaling and Novak have put “some distance” between them. Uh, yeah, about that: US Weekly reports that Kaling responded to the post, “Omg I haaate him so much.” That “haaate” gets more sarcastic with every “a.”

As of August 2023, Novak and Kaling were still interacting with each other on social media. Kaling wished Novak a happy birthday via Instagram, to which he responded in the comments, “No party is as fun as the car ride home with you.”

Kaling previously discussed the rumors about Novak being the father of her children in 2022. “It doesn’t bother me,” she told Marie Claire. “He’s the godparent to both my kids—and they have such a great relationship — and so far [the rumors haven’t] affected my happiness at all, it hasn’t affected my kids or BJ… If that’s what is going to be titillating to people, I’ll take it.”

What do you think Kaling gets asked about more often: her relationship with Novak or a potential new The Office series? It’s probably close.

(Via US Weekly)

Lily Gladstone hopefully isn’t thinking too much about not winning that particular gold trophy, and if so, good for her. The Killers of the Flower Moon leading lady is already the (joint) face of an upcoming Hulu series, Under the Bridge, that will likely be gobbled up by both true crime fans and anyone who wouldn’t mind a variant on the crime-thriller setup of Gillian Flynn’s Sharp Objects. Gladstone portrays a cop attempting to solve 14-year-old Reena Virk’s murder, a real-life case that turned a Canadian town upside down.

As well, Riley Keough (of the recent Daisy Jones & The Six and the upcoming farting-cryptid movie, Sasquatch Sunset) co-stars as the late Rebecca Godfrey, who penned the same-named book containing revealing interviews with those who were accused in this case. As the above trailer shows, Godfrey put herself in danger during her efforts to bring justice for Virk’s family. Archie Panjabi co-stars, and here’s more from the synopsis:

“Under the Bridge” is based on acclaimed author Rebecca Godfrey’s book about the 1997 true story of fourteen-year-old Reena Virk (Vritika Gupta) who went to join friends at a party and never returned home. Through the eyes of Godfrey (Riley Keough) and a local police officer (Lily Gladstone), the series takes us into the hidden world of the young girls accused of the murder — revealing startling truths about the unlikely killer.

Hulu’s Under the Bridge debuts on April 17 with two episodes and weekly followups.

This might come as a bit of a surprise considering how good he’s been for the Milwaukee Bucks over the course of his tenure, but entering Sunday’s game against the Oklahoma City Thunder, Khris Middleton had only recorded one triple-double in his career. That did end up changing in the Bucks’ 118-93 win over Oklahoma City, although it took a little convincing on Middleton’s part.

With the Bucks up 107-86 in the fourth quarter, Doc Rivers wanted to empty his bench and get his starters out of the game. Middleton was among them, but he noticed that he was only one point away from getting a triple-double — he already had 10 assists and 10 rebounds. As such, he asked Rivers to keep him in, he got the chance, and on the ensuing possession, he hit a jumper to get to 11 points.

“I said a little word to Doc, I was feeling it – I guess you could say,” Middleton said after the game, according to Lori Nickel of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. “I realized I was one point away; I could be in control, I could hopefully knock down the jump shot, like I did tonight.”

Fortunately things ended up working out well for Rivers here, as Middleton immediately committed a transition take foul after this and went to the bench.